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Census Profile

Yorkton, Saskatchewan (City)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 15,669
Population in 20061 15,038
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 4.2
Total private dwellings2 7,175
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 6,759
Population density per square kilometre 608.1
Land area (square km) 25.77
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 15,665
0 to 4 years 925
5 to 9 years 870
10 to 14 years 890
15 to 19 years 975
15 years 170
16 years 175
17 years 195
18 years 240
19 years 205
20 to 24 years 950
25 to 29 years 950
30 to 34 years 875
35 to 39 years 890
40 to 44 years 945
45 to 49 years 1,070
50 to 54 years 1,135
55 to 59 years 970
60 to 64 years 865
65 to 69 years 680
70 to 74 years 740
75 to 79 years 665
80 to 84 years 580
85 years and over 690
Median age of the population5 42.7
% of the population aged 15 and over 82.9
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 12,980
Married or living with a common-law partner 7,455
Married (and not separated) 6,440
Living common law 1,020
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 5,525
Single (never legally married) 3,155
Separated 320
Divorced 735
Widowed 1,310
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 4,340
Size of census family: 2 persons 2,415
Size of census family: 3 persons 805
Size of census family: 4 persons 760
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 360
Total number of census families in private households8 4,335
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 3,640
Married couples 3,130
Without children at home 1,715
With children at home 1,410
1 child 520
2 children 620
3 or more children 270
Common-law couples 510
Without children at home 290
With children at home 220
1 child 100
2 children 75
3 or more children 45
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 695
Female parent 575
1 child 325
2 children 160
3 or more children 95
Male parent 125
1 child 90
2 children 25
3 or more children 10
Total children in census families in private households 4,220
Under six years of age 1,100
6 to 14 years 1,540
15 to 17 years 500
18 to 24 years 800
25 years and over 280
Average number of children at home per census family 1.0
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 15,285
Number of persons not in census families 3,085
Living with relatives9 260
Living with non-relatives only 575
Living alone 2,255
Number of census family persons 12,195
Average number of persons per census family 2.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 3,035
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 1,255
Living with relatives9 65
Living with non-relatives only 60
Living alone 1,135
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,775
Total number of private households by household type10 6,760
Census-family households 4,270
One-family-only households11 3,990
Couple-family households12 3,460
Without children 1,910
With children 1,550
Lone-parent-family households 530
Other family households13 280
One-family households with persons not in a census family 210
Couple-family households14 115
Without children 55
With children 60
Lone-parent-family households 95
Two-or-more-family households 65
Non-census-family households 2,495
One-person households 2,250
Two-or-more-person households 245
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 6,760
Single-detached house 4,830
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 95
Other dwelling17 1,830
Semi-detached house 220
Row house 215
Apartment, duplex 55
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 1,335
Other single-attached house 5
Total number of private households by household size18 6,760
1 person 2,255
2 persons 2,425
3 persons 835
4 persons 795
5 persons 310
6 or more persons 145
Number of persons in private households 15,280
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 15,305
  Single responses  15,100
    English  13,060
    French  120
    Non-official languages  1,920
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 35
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  10
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  5
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  30
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 1,865
        African languages, n.i.e.  10
        Afrikaans  25
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  10
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  5
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  5
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  15
        Chinese, n.o.s.  35
        Creoles  5
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  10
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  255
        Greek  20
        Gujarati  10
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  45
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  10
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  10
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  5
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  15
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  70
        Portuguese  10
        Romanian  10
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  50
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  15
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  10
        Slovak  5
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  35
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  145
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  5
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  965
        Urdu  25
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 20
  Multiple responses          200
    English and French  10
    English and non-official language  180
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 15,305
  English only 14,880
  French only 0
  English and French 390
  Neither English nor French 35
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 15,305
  English 15,175
  French 80
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 35
Official language minority (number)23 85
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.6
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 15,300
  Single responses 15,050
    English 14,630
    French 20
    Non-official languages 400
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 5
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 400
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 10
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 5
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 10
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 15
        Chinese, n.o.s. 20
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 15
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 10
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 5
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 10
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 5
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 10
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 10
        Portuguese 5
        Romanian 5
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 5
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 15
        Serbo-Croatian 0
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 0
        Sindhi 0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5
        Slovak 0
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 20
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 95
        Taiwanese 5
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 100
        Urdu 15
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         250
    English and French 5
    English and non-official language 245
    French and non-official language 5
    English, French and non-official language 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 15,300
  None 14,420
  Single responses  860
    English  170
    French  85
    Non-official languages  605
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 25
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  5
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  20
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 570
        African languages, n.i.e.  5
        Afrikaans  10
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  5
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  5
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  5
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  60
        Greek  10
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  5
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  5
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  20
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  15
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  20
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  35
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  5
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  345
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 15
  Multiple responses          20
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  10
    French and non-official language  15
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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